Rusfeldt & Klevin…Albert Lea (Minnesota State Gazetteer and Business Directory including Dakota Territory 1880-81, Volume II, R. L. Polk & Co. and A. C. Danser, St. Paul and Detroit, Page 978)
Page 391. Brick. At Albert Lea the following persons have made brick: …Rusfeldt and
Page 392. Kleven. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1872-1882, Volume I, N. H. Winchell & Warren Upham, Johnson, Smith & Harrison, Minneapolis, 1884)
Page 392. About a quarter of a mile south of Albert Lea, in the west edge of sec. 16 of that township, bricks have been made by Rusfeldt and Kleven since 1873. For several years previous to 1880, they made 500,000 to 700,000 yearly, selling at $7.00 per M. In the spring of 1880 they were putting in brick-making machinery, and expected to produce 1,500,000 bricks that year. The clay forms a ridge fifty or sixty rods long from north-
Page 393. west to southeast and about twenty feet high; it is yellowish in its upper ten feet and gray below. This clay when excavated and mixed from the upper and lower portions of the bank, contains the right proportion of sand, and none is used except for making the bricks slip from the mould. No fossils, as shells or wood, have been found in this deposit. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1872-1882, Volume I, N. H. Winchell & Warren Upham, Johnson, Smith & Harrison, Minneapolis, 1884)